Jug Cerović: “The map is the reality; the infrastructure is entirely virtual.”

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Madrid architect and mapmaker Jug Cerović discusses the transit cartographer’s ability to shape reality, drawing hundreds of bus lines by hand, mapping first and visiting later, installing guerrilla maps in his hometown of Belgrade, organizing a new map conference, helping Apple create a good public transit layer, and how seeing Istakhri’s 1,100-year-old maps will make one feel like a tyro. See his work at jugcerovic.com

• Madrid multimodal transit map
• Tokyo metro map
• London metro map
• Belgrade transit map
• Designboom article (which stirred up a lot of business)
• Transit Mapping Symposium
• DezignTechnic: the Dubai wayfinding company he works with
• Middle Constellation book
• One Metro World book
• Mark Ovenden’s Transit Maps of the World
• Richard Archambault
• Sasha Trubetskoy
• Istakhri
• Piri Reis
• Padrón Real

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